Development of a scale measure for green employee workplace practices
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify latent variables that explain green workplace attitudes, behaviours and practices. Design/methodology/approach – Following a resource base view, a HRM-driven green workforce may provide competitive advantage. Workforce assessment here may take place at the employee level using environment-focussed measures including ability, motivation and opportunity (AMO). To test this proposition, a usable sample, following deletion of multivariate outliers, comprised 371 employees across three industry sectors. Participants self-reported for 26 items concerning perceptions related to environmental consciousness, organisational roles, and knowledge. Findings/ Results - Exploratory factor analysis revealed a four factor structure explaining green workplace attitudes, behaviours and practices: environmental knowledge; environmental workplace AMO; global environmental attitudes, and; organisation and the environment. Originality/value – The study provides a practical and parsimonious diagnostic tool to facilitate HRM-led development to engender sustainable environmental attitudes and practices within the workforce with implications for future research directions discussed.
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Journal of New Business Ideas and Trends
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Australian Business Education Research Association
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